dacca

I created the bulk of this track back in August 2016, for a collaboration which fell through. So tonight I dusted it off and added a bass line using loops. The lead guitar is played manually in Logic Pro X, as are the backwards metal and various other "voice" tracks. The drums are an Apple drummer track, customised by me.

I was thinking about Syria...all the suffering. I couldn't think of anything useful to say in the face of such industrial scale devastation, so I'll leave that there.

And to be honest, I like heavy music, and dark music...and this is both. I added the Middle Eastern sounds to reflect the darkness of my thoughts there. Maybe I'm just drawn to it...dunno.

In the end I decided to dedicate the track to those who suffer for their art. So there we are...a mish mash of dark thoughts led to my creating this track. I hope you get something out of it!

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Art: The City - a fallen lift shaft (1941) - English artist Graham Sutherland

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If you enjoyed this you might also enjoy this track from two years ago:

https://soundcloud.com/dacca/arabicus-glitchicus-metalicus

I've always enjoyed my brother Pete's music, and here I've added a couple of extra guitar tracks to "Nightstalker".

Here's the original by Strange Torment.

https://soundcloud.com/strangetallsongs/04-nightstalker

from their album Strange Torment:

https://soundcloud.com/strangetallsongs/sets/strange-torment-album-by-strange-torment

Pete Coutts and his friend Andy Wiggins were in a few bands in the 90s, and I uploaded the music from their different bands (with permission) onto their Strange Tall Songs https://soundcloud.com/strangetallsongs account on Soundcloud.

Photography - End of the Day | by Randy Heinitz, Flickr. 2014.

My little tribute to the amazing Daft Punk.

Created using glitch pads from Novation Launchpad, and two manually played lead synths.

I hope I did it some justice.

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Art: Daft Punk ? green - HRC Punta Cana

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Daft_Punk_%3F_green_-_HRC_Punta_Cana.jpg

This track was inspired by this art:

art: http://toni041.npage.de/teufel.html

You're under no obligation. Rename it, do as you please with it, except just remember to add a link to the original open collab version. Thank you.

I searched for 'deep stillness'....gotta go there...reasons to keep living # 498,301

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Photograph: Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lake_Louise,_Alberta,_Canada.jpg

Ice-nine is the name of an unusual water molecule in the "funny" doomsday story "Cat's Cradle" by American Humanist and science-fiction author Kurt Vonnegut.

"If one molecule of this unusual water came in contact with a regular molecule of water, the regular molecule would turn to ice-9. This happened over and over again, in geometric progression." James Rickards.

If one molecule of ice-nine escapes its vial, ALL water on Earth would turn to ice-nine...Earth would be frozen, and so would all life. Doomsday.

Rickards goes on to explain how this concept will apply (metaphorically) to your money:

https://dailyreckoning.com/ice-nine-plan/

I recommend JR's books, especially "The Road To Ruin". Follow the breadcrumbs, read...unless you don't care about your own money...

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Art: AndYaDontStop White out...305/365 | by AndYaDontStop, Flickr

I was in a Pink Floyd kind of mood, and this track is the result. All standard GarageBand instruments.

Every year, ignoring for the moment the movement of our Solar System around the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy, you travel roughly 586 million miles as we orbit our star. That's almost 1.6 million miles every day, or 18.5 miles per second.

Here we go again, for another year!

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Image: ISS-46 Sunrise, NASA

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I explored how far we travel in space, including travel around the centre of the Milky Way, in another track here:

https://soundcloud.com/dacca/earth-spins-as-it-orbits-the